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Auction History Result Lot #: 1283 ON YOUR TOES title lobby card '39 Zorina, Eddie Albert  Date Sold 12/21/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Warner Bros Movie Posters at Auction  Only $15.99The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. However, you can buy the auction catalog it appears in using the "Order" button above. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) On Your Toes, the 1939 Ray Enright musical ballet romantic comedy ("Based on the musical play by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott"; about a male vaudeville dancer who quits to become a serious composer, and then he finds out that one of his female friends from vaudeville has now become a ballet dancer, and he writes a ballet for her) starring Vera Zorina (billed as "Zorina"), Eddie Albert, Alan Hale Sr., Frank McHugh, James Gleason, Leonid Kinskey, Gloria Dickson, and Erik Rhodes. Note that this musical, with music by Rodgers and Hart, was a huge success on Broadway, and the first show to incorporate ballet dancing (with choreography by George Abbott). The star of the Broadway show was Ray Bolger, and Louis B. Mayer signed Bolger to a Hollywood contract, but apparently passed on this musical, perhaps afraid of the ballet connection. So Warner Bros. bought the rights, and they couldn't have Bolger, so they used Eddie Albert instead. The movie did quite well, and its most memorable song is "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue". Also note that star Vera Zorina was a German ballet star hired by Sam Goldwyn after he saw her in an English production of the stage version of this movie, and he brought her to Hollywood. She had a few successful movies, including this one, but after being cast as Maria in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1943, she was fired after two weeks, and she left Hollywood a few years later. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. card has darkened slightly (typical of Warner Bros. linen cards of this period), but the card is not at all fragile; the card was lightly creased vertically three times (one is 1" from the left edge, one is 4" from the left edge, and one is 5" from the left edge); crease in the top right corner and small paper loss in the upper right border; creases and some light stains around the edges of the card Learn More about condition grades 
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